Transferring an already registered domain involves changing the registrar that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS entry modifications through the new company. The transfer process is standard with most generic and country-code TLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to snatch your domain. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Hosting

If you purchase a Linux hosting from our company, you will be able to administer all domains registered through us via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with only several clicks. All registrations will be listed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a tiny padlock sign. Clicking it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain is locked and you wish to transfer it, you’ll just need to click for the second time and that’s it. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are managed in the very same location as the hosting account itself, you will not have to sign in and out of different admin panels.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’ve registered a domain through our company and you wish to transfer it, you can quickly unlock it via the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All registrations will be shown alphabetically in your account and you will see a tiny padlock icon next to each domain there, as long as its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock option. You can see if the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and update the current status by clicking on it once more. You can then continue and initiate the transfer procedure right away without needing to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites, as the change will take effect instantaneously without you or us having to do anything else.